This semitransparent painting experiment I’ve had in progress for a while is taking shape, and I’m finally putting my foot down, applying for window display opportunities, and forcing myself to figure out how to actually hang it. Feeling optimistic. I ordered some earth magnets this week! Here’s the beginnings of a hypothetical installation arrangement, missing a few more blobby droplet thingies that have yet to be added (can you tell they’re painted on the BACK? So fun!), along with more painting segments (or a separate grouping maybe?).

It’s sounding likely that I’ll be doing a window display for Susan Hensel Gallery sometime next year, and some other exhibition ideas/opportunities are in the works. I also recently confirmed an exhibition at One Yoga in Uptown, Minneapolis next February and March. When I stopped by to check out the wall space Claudia Poser‘s work was there! I love her stuff and she and her husband own one of my paintings. Yay for good vibes. My little seedlings, podlings, bubbles and ladder thingies are ready to get their Namaste on. I’m considering titling the show Vrksasana (tree pose).

Deborah and I are getting all the details set for our September WARM show. We are titling it Resurfacing and the opening will be Friday, Sept. 16th, 5-8pm. More details coming soon! I will also be showing at the Baroque Room in Lowertown in St. Paul, November through January.

We had our final Placemaking Block Party with Friendly Streets on Friday at the Greater Frogtown Community Development Corporation garden. I posted some photos on my facebook page here. With both Fringe Festival and Placemaking over, I am having a major case of end-of-summer blues. Good thing I have lots of exciting things coming up to distract me. Still in denial about this thing called “fall” though. I went to the lake today to soak up some sun while I still can.

This one insisted on being finished tonight. Would not let me go to bed. I was so enthralled with it I actually caught myself making weird little sound effects for it while painting. Apparently my tendency to talk to them is evolving…oh dear.

However, now that it’s “done” I’m wondering if it needs more brown “seeds” in the brown “scoops” that are surrounding the green “scoop.” (I’m trying to come up with new descriptors so that I don’t pigeonhole how one might interpret it. The seeds could also be eggs, or rocks, or eyeballs…or something else I haven’t even thought of yet.)

Untitled, Watercolor on Paper, 8" x 10"

Are the brown ones cradling the green one protectively, or are they getting ready to crush it? This one seems a bit dark and threatening to me (ok I’ll admit, I intended it to be kind of ominous), but I think you could also read it the opposite way. “Crowding” could also be “protecting.” But what if Greenie doesn’t WANT their protection? What if she wants her independence, wants to feel the fresh breath of freedom in the wind?

Hmm, did I mention I’ve begun reading a lot of feminist art lit in the past couple of weeks? Think there’s a connection? And do I need more eggs? 😉 IN THE PAINTING.

Recent purchases from Powell's Books in Portland

I’m working on organizing a feminist art reading discussion group hosted by WARM this summer, last Wednesday of each month at the Walker’s Open Field. Currently taking suggestions for articles or short books that would be good discussion material (and would be fairly likely to be accessible via the library etc); help me out if you’ve got any!

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